Decided to fix my old laptop (burnt out HDD) and replaced the part.
Laptop is:
Acer Aspire 7736 ZG
Nvidia GeForce 210M 512 Mb
3 GB Ram
Hdd is now a 750 GB WD ...yes it's ancient technology
Installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and short-story is I can't find the graphics card anymore. I first noticed the problem when installing the nvidia driver which said no compatible card was found. Running dxdiag or msinfo32 has the same result, there is no graphics card.
I can not check Bios settings as the Bios interface is limited by the manufacturer. Bios is up to date.
The only thing I can think of is the 64 bit OS but I have no knowledge of why that would be so (no logical argument comes to mind).
I have checked the physical graphics board and it seems ok, nothing unplugged.
The card was running before I had to change the HDD.
On a sidenote the physical memory usage is at 2.2GB out of 3 and the system is relatively slow.
Any ideas anyone apart from getting windows 7 32 bit or trying out windows 8.1 just for kicks and hopeful state of mind.
Laptop is:
Acer Aspire 7736 ZG
Nvidia GeForce 210M 512 Mb
3 GB Ram
Hdd is now a 750 GB WD ...yes it's ancient technology
Installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and short-story is I can't find the graphics card anymore. I first noticed the problem when installing the nvidia driver which said no compatible card was found. Running dxdiag or msinfo32 has the same result, there is no graphics card.
I can not check Bios settings as the Bios interface is limited by the manufacturer. Bios is up to date.
The only thing I can think of is the 64 bit OS but I have no knowledge of why that would be so (no logical argument comes to mind).
I have checked the physical graphics board and it seems ok, nothing unplugged.
The card was running before I had to change the HDD.
On a sidenote the physical memory usage is at 2.2GB out of 3 and the system is relatively slow.
Any ideas anyone apart from getting windows 7 32 bit or trying out windows 8.1 just for kicks and hopeful state of mind.